With their expanding information assets and the increasing
importance of the knowledge factor, organizations are increasingly
challenged to efficiently support knowledge management processes
with appropriate integration and retrieval technologies. Besides
traditional information retrieval approaches, the use of semantic
technologies like Topic Maps is also becoming more important. This
paper proposes a technology framework for the automatic semantic
integration of information. Based on various information repositories,
topics and topic associations are created automatically in real time. In
addition, the first results from a proof of concept in conjunction with
the European company EADS provide further insights into the
proposed framework’s applicability in practice.